Barnett, William; Kalonda-Kanyama, Isaac - Department of Economics, University of Kansas - 2012
This paper assesses the ability of the Rotterdam model and of three versions of the almost ideal demand system (AIDS … simulations, we find that the Rotterdam model performs better than the linear-approximate AIDs at recovering the signs of all the … elasticities, even when the true values are very high. The linear-approximate AIDS, not only performs poorly at recovering the time …